45 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 11 Aug \ parent \ on: Stacker_Sports Fantasy NFL league Draft results! Stacker_Sports
Good thing I took Dak for 4 bucks. He is good for some big numbers against crap teams.
Good thing for me, the Browns are no crap team.
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Have you given any thought to how an extremely successful territory might negatively affect the overall SN experience. We have a really nice balance of posts from different territories that tend to make the hot and top lists each day but say one territory got 10x the "users" as all the others that would make the SN experience pretty bad for anyone who isn't interested in that territory. I don't think it applies to Bitcoin since it was the OG territory and everyone who is on SN, at least at this point in its adoption cycle, is here due to bitcoin.
It makes me think that significant territory growth only really makes sense if SN grows significantly as well.
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I hadn't thought about it in terms of territories, but I've thought about it in terms of my own activity. I could probably post quite a bit more, but I don't want SN to be the Undisciplined show, so I'll ramp up along with the user base.
I could see where one of the less bitcoin related territories, like ~Stacker_Sports, having most of the top posts would alienate many of the people currently here. I doubt rapid growth of ~econ would do the same, though.
Stacker News needs to actually start growing, though, before we have to worry about it.
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Yeah, I think there needs to be base level SN growth before territories can go out and really make a push to grow. I am sure a lot of stackers wouldn't be pleased if SN turned into a sports messageboard because I made a big push to bring in new users. I agree it would be less so with econ but I think any territory that becomes so dominant that its posts and comments are overwhelming the main pages is probably a net negative overall.
This is part of my line of thinking as to why I want to see a cohesive marketing strategy for SN before I buy the territory outright.
I bring it up with you because you indicated you might be buying econ.
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Still, you have to factor in that even if you draw in lots of sports fans, some of them will become active in the other territories.
Also, you can just raise the posting fee, if you don't like what it's doing to the site.
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I thought about this but if you market to sports fans they are most likely to talk about sports and if I am going to go to the trouble of taking time, effort and money to market I wouldn’t want to handcuff my own territory because it worked.
I think the broader point is the territory and broader SN growth needs to be synergistic if we are going to maintain good diversity of subject matter.
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Another way to think about it is that drawing in a bunch of new people gives the other territories a chance to appeal to them. Some will do better jobs of that than others.
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